Step up your kitchen game

Tapping and scrolling through a recipe while your hands are covered in olive oil isn’t ideal. Upgrade your connected sous chef with the BBC Good Food Alexa Skill, a 2019 Webby Winner. You’ll get recipe ideas and step-by-step guidance with simple voice commands (and without getting half your meal on your phone).

Everyone’s baking bread these days. Some are even doing it well. Here’s how you become one of those people: Study 2019 Webby Nominee The Perfect Loaf, a website by Maurizio Leo devoted to the craft of baking bread. From creating a sourdough starter to storing loaves, he covers everything you need to know to bake the best bread you’ve ever tasted.

The best way to become more confident in the kitchen is to start with the basics, and Kitchn Cooking School is the place to learn them. This comprehensive video series earned a 2020 Webby Nomination and covers everything you need to know, from knife skills and food safety to throwing a dinner party.

The pasta’s boiling, the vegetables are roasting, the greens are in the saute pan—and you only have one kitchen timer. Not to worry: Download My Cooking Timers to create and run multiple timers simultaneously, so everything comes out perfectly cooked.

Need a soundtrack to that video you’re working on? Check out Uppbeat, a site that hosts free-to-use music for creators. Browse tracks, organize them into playlists, and download songs to use in your work—without negotiating copyright claims.